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+= Vert.x Simplest vertx-mysql-postgresql-client project
+
+This project shows a very simple hello world Vert.x project using vertx-mysql-postgresql-client, which has a simple HTTP server which
+returns the result of 'SELECT 0' on mysql db.
+
+Under the hood vertx-mysql-postgresql-client uses jasync-sql as the database driver.
+
+In this example Vert.x is used embedded. I.e. we use the Vert.x APIs directly in our own classes rather than deploying
+the code in verticles.
+
+You can run or debug the example in your IDE by just right clicking the main class and run as.. or debug as...
+
+The pom.xml uses the Maven shade plugin to assemble the application and all it's dependencies into a single "fat" jar.
+
+To run with maven
+
+    mvn compile exec:java
+
+To build a "fat jar"
+
+    mvn package
+
+To run the fat jar:
+
+    java -jar target/jasync-examples-3.6.3-fat.jar
+
+(You can take that jar and run it anywhere there is a Java 8+ JDK. It contains all the dependencies it needs so you
+don't need to install Vert.x on the target machine).
+
+You can also run the fat jar with maven:
+
+    mvn package exec:exec@run-app
+
+Now point your browser at http://localhost:8080
diff --git a/jasync-examples/pom.xml b/jasync-examples/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
+    <artifactId>jasync-examples</artifactId>
+    <version>3.6.3</version>
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- the main class -->
+        <exec.mainClass>io.vertx.example.HelloWorldEmbedded</exec.mainClass>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
+            <artifactId>vertx-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
+            <artifactId>vertx-mysql-postgresql-client-jasync</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>1.7.25</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>1.7.25</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <!-- We specify the Maven compiler plugin as we need to set it to Java 1.8 -->
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.1</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <source>1.8</source>
+                        <target>1.8</target>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+
+        <!--
+        You only need the part below if you want to build your application into a fat executable jar.
+        This is a jar that contains all the dependencies required to run it, so you can just run it with
+        java -jar
+        -->
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.3</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                    <manifestEntries>
+                                        <Main-Class>${exec.mainClass}</Main-Class>
+                                    </manifestEntries>
+                                </transformer>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
+                                    <resource>META-INF/services/io.vertx.core.spi.VerticleFactory</resource>
+                                </transformer>
+                            </transformers>
+                            <artifactSet>
+                            </artifactSet>
+                            <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-fat.jar
+                            </outputFile>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.0</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <!-- run the application using the fat jar -->
+                        <id>run-app</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>exec</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <executable>java</executable>
+                            <arguments>
+                                <argument>-jar</argument>
+                                <argument>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-fat.jar</argument>
+                            </arguments>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>staging</id>
+            <repositories>
+                <repository>
+                    <id>staging</id>
+                    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iovertx-3814/</url>
+                </repository>
+            </repositories>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/jasync-examples/src/main/java/io/vertx/example/HelloWorldEmbedded.java b/jasync-examples/src/main/java/io/vertx/example/HelloWorldEmbedded.java
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+package io.vertx.example;
+
+import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
+import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
+import io.vertx.ext.asyncsql.MySQLClient;
+import io.vertx.ext.sql.SQLClient;
+import io.vertx.ext.sql.SQLConnection;
+
+
+/**
+ * @author oshai
+ */
+public class HelloWorldEmbedded {
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+    JsonObject mySQLClientConfig = new JsonObject()
+            .put("username", "mysql_async")
+            .put("password", "root")
+            .put("database", "mysql_async_tests")
+            .put("port", 33018)
+            .put("host", "localhost");
+    SQLClient mySQLClient = MySQLClient.createShared(Vertx.vertx(), mySQLClientConfig);
+
+    // Create an HTTP server which simply returns "Hello World!" to each request.
+    Vertx.vertx().createHttpServer()
+            .requestHandler(req -> {
+              mySQLClient.getConnection(res -> {
+                if (res.succeeded()) {
+
+                  SQLConnection connection = res.result();
+
+                  // Got a connection
+                  connection.query("SELECT 0", result ->
+                          req.response().end("Got response " + result.result().getNumRows()));
+                } else {
+                  // Failed to get connection - deal with it
+                  req.response().end("Failed!");
+                }
+              });
+
+            })
+            .listen(8080);
+  }
+
+}